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Dramatically Lower Wages for Recession-Era Graduates

In recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly, you may have seen reference to a disturbing study of the wages of college graduates by Yale Economist Lisa Kahn.  In Kahn's study of the wages for college graduates who entered the labor market during recessions, she found drastically lower wages for recession-era college grads when compared to college grads who entered the job market during good times.  In year one, those students who graduated during recessions earned 15-30 percent less than those who graduated during non-recessions.  But most shockingly, those low wages lingered for 15 or more years.  In fact, recession-era graduates' wages never caught up to the wages of good times grads over... Read More »

WARNING!! DRASTICALLY LOW SIX-YEAR!!! GRADUATION RATES AT TEXAS COLLEGES

As exposed in a recent study funded by AEI and the Bill Gates Foundation, colleges in Texas and vicinity have done a very poor job of graduating students in a timely fashion, if at all.  Below are the 6-year!! graduation rates (4 year rates are  so low that colleges refuse to disclose) for Caucasian students at colleges that are popular for Texas students. AUSTIN COLLEGE 74% BAYLOR 74% UT-DALLAS 52% SMU 73% TEXAS TECH 57% TCU 70% TEXAS ST.-SAN MARCOS 54% UT-AUSTIN 77% SOUTHWESTERN 75% UT-SAN ANTONIO 28% TEXAS A&M 79% ALABAMA 64% LSU 59% COLORADO 68% ARIZONA 59% ST. EDWARDS 53% TRINITY TX 78% GEORGIA 76% If your family follows what everyone... Read More »

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